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Changes to how Patrons can make suggestions (Patreon)

Published:
2023-03-24 13:14:26
Imported:
2026-06

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We like to get feedback from you guys about what we could be working on - what types of assets are most useful or missing from our library.

We do listen to everyone's suggestions on social media, but we also like to have a way to prefer feedback from the people supporting us (i.e. you!) - to give you guys a legitimate way to directly influence the content on polyhaven.com (other than just paying for it of course!).

Previously we had a Trello board where patrons could add suggestions and vote on other people's ideas, but we found this to have two main problems:

It wasn't used much. Over the 6 years the board has been up, the most-voted suggestion (night HDRIs) has only 18 votes.

The most voted suggestions were also mainly old - since they've been there the longest, they had the most time to gather votes - regardless of whether we'd already addressed them or not. This didn't feel like a good representation of the most popular requests.

Instead, and we've already been doing this a while, we'd like to get feedback from you guys (patrons specifically) primarily from focused polls and surveys - every now and then we have a specific question to ask, like what theme to work on next. Once a year or so we also have a generic survey about what assets you're looking for (looks like we're overdue for another one!).

In addition to patron feedback, we still feel it's important to listen to what everyone else is saying, both on social media and by (anonymously) tracking searches on our site. Generally we can gather more data this way, and we can get a better idea of what would be most useful to most people. I'm working on making this data available publicly on our stats page, both for transparency's sake and just because I like to share what I find interesting.

That said, you're of course always welcome to reach out to us and give us ideas :) there's no wrong way to share your suggestions.

-Greg

Comments

Krystal Camprubi

I agree with Justin about picking very specific niches. Also about focusing on 3D models (even if, God I like so much your textures !!!). Some area are totally missing in 3D. For example : You can find a lots of things about Vikings. But all of them are about battles. You can find a hundred of blades but good luck if you want to make another kind of picture about everyday vikin tribes : like some musician playing the sutton hoo lyre or a viking women weaving a belt on some ancient weaving device. There are simply NOTHING about that aspect. I could say this on almost every topics : you can find a lots of armor pieces for medieval history scenes, some real, some from imaginary. But almost nothing about medieval harnesses. If you want to depict Arthurian mythology, you can barely find Lancelot heraldic symbols. These are just samples. I just want to point out there are really "missing areas" in 3D, in whatever topic you choose. Assuming that Polyhaven works with a community system, I would first spot some themes that could be enthousiastic enough for the followers to be involved. Then, I would spot the missing area into that topics and I would try to fill the gaps... Why not using a vote system to find the topics in the first place ? Thank you for asking to your community. Once again, I really enjoy the sharing spirit of polyhaven team. (and sorry for my bad english :-))

Poly Haven

For now, based on past votes and other feedback, we're focusing on nature assets in a few different biomes. Once we get a bit more comfortable with the workflow of going out as a team and scanning environments, we'll likely put a few location ideas to vote and see what you guys want the most :) Edit: In the meantime, there's nothing stopping people voting for a viking town in the next community project, I think that'd be really fun to work on.